Jay Clarke and Francisco Rocha will play each other in the 1st round of the Knoxville Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on COURT 2. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jay Clarke who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Jay Clarke is the pick to win this match.
Jay Clarke -> 1.27
Francisco Rocha -> 3.34
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Prediction and head to head Jay Clarke vs. Francisco Rocha
There is no head to head record between Jay Clarke and Francisco Rocha since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Jay Clarke
53 - 28win/loss
174
153
WWWWLWWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62-30 | 30-9 | 26-9 | 5-6 | 0-5 | 1-1 |
| 2024 | 54-29 | 6-4 | 41-18 | 6-5 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-19 | 10-12 | 21-4 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 22-27 | 11-12 | 3-4 | 7-6 | 1-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-28 | 7-7 | 8-14 | 3-3 | 1-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 203, Jay will start his run in the Knoxville Challenger after he played his last match in the Charlottesville Challenger where he lost 7-6(6) 6-2 to Dietrich in the 2nd round on the 29th of October.
Clarke has a compiled 52-28 win-loss record in 2025, 3-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the current season was winning the title the Skopje Challenger where he overcame Nerman Fatic in the final 6-2 6-3.
Talking about his overall career, Jay has an overall 345-241 record. He has a negative 33-36 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in the Knoxville Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See his history.
Francisco Rocha
22 - 24win/loss
780
675
LLWWLWLLWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22-25 | 8-12 | 11-11 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-30 | 19-15 | 9-13 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 11-13 | 10-9 | 1-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 10-7 | 10-6 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-7 | 9-5 | 0-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 752, the Portuguese got to the 1st round after defeating Gus Grumet 7-6(1) 6-2 and Leo Borg 6-3 3-6 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Portuguese defeated Borg (6-3 3-6 6-3). During the match Rocha scored 80 points vs Borg’s 74. Francisco was pretty aggressive to blast 36 winners.
About the serving games, Rocha made 6 aces and he committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Francisco Rocha was pretty efficient on serve to win 71% (36/51) of his 1st serve and 71% (25/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve once. The Portuguese was clinical in his return game without wasting any break point and break Borg twice.
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Portuguese started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points he played.
The Portuguese has a composed 22-23 win-loss record in 2025, 3-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Knoxville Challenger
Rocha has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
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LLWWLWLLWW Tennis Scores in Knoxville Challenger
- Inaki Montes-De La TorreMontes-De La Torre – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (6-1 2-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mitchell KruegerKrueger – Hoyoung RohRoh (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Antoine GhibaudoGhibaudo – Saba PurtseladzePurtseladze (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stefan KozlovKozlov – Dominique RollandRolland (7-61 2-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andres MartinMartin – Tyler ZinkZink (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Alex RybakovRybakov (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alfredo PerezPerez – Andrew FentyFenty (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Nicolas MejiaMejia – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daniil GlinkaGlinka – Peter MakkMakk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francisco RochaRocha – Jay ClarkeClarke (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Matias SotoSoto – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Andre IlaganIlagan – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- James Kent TrotterKent Trotter – Charles BroomBroom (0-0) – H2H and prediction
